[gmx-users] how to know solvent molecule number

[Justin Lemkul]

On 4/5/17 9:12 AM, Chintan Bhagat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to do stimulation of my protein in solvent, ethanolamine (different
> percentage).
> I have made box of 1 nm and then using command
> "gmx solvate -cp 1AKI_newbox.gro -cs ethanolamine.gro -o 1AKI_solv.gro -p
> topol.top",
> As per my knowledge, i solvated my protein in ethanolamine.
> Now I want to know the number of ethanolamine molecule present in box. Then
> I looked in to *.top* file but no information is availble in the file (SOL).
> (As per intruction, program is only hard-coded to update the topology in
> the case of water).
> I found increase in number of molecules from 7200 to 128004 in
> /home/lab1/Desktop/md2/1AKI_processed.gro.gro and 1AKI_solv.gro,
> respectively. It means something is inserted in box (must be
> ethanolamine!!!!!-my guess)
> How can i know number of ethanolamine molecules?
>

Use grep -c with a unique atom name to count the number of any given molecule in 
the system.

>
> for reference please find attched files.
>

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-Justin

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